The aircraft caught fire after the hard landing and the pilot and the trainee pilot and other 7 crew member were reported safe by authorities.

For the info of the ‘old’ 37SQN C-130E chain rattlers: A Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Pakistan Air Force Serial #4180, former 37SQN C-130E A97-180, has been damaged beyond repair. The aircraft, on a training mission at PAF Base Nur Khan, Chaklala, Pakistan. made a heavy landing today, slid into a wall, where a fire broke out. All crew on board survived the accident.

The PAF C-130 was on a routine training flight, said a spokesman for the service and added that the fire was extinguished and all crew members are safe.

According to Express-News C-130 Aircraft caught fire and was destroyed

Based on information provided by the PAF, the aircraft was out on a routine training round when the plane caught fire and had to make an emergency landing.

The cause of the incident has not been revealed. However, the authorities have called for a board of inquiry to look into the root cause behind the incident.

The US-made C-130 cargo aircraft is a four-engine turboprop aircraft intended for military and relief applications. It is the PAF’s main transport aircraft and part of its fixed-wing transport fleet.

The aircraft was first inducted in the PAF in the early 1960s. It is regularly used in relief operations in most calamity-hit regions in Pakistan.

It is also used to transport paratroopers and special operations forces

RAF C-130K XV206 from 47 Sqn burns on a dirt landing strip after hitting landmine on roll-out near Lashkar Gar, Afghanistan. The exploding landmine holed the port external fuel tank and set the number two (port inner) engine on fire. [Photographer unknown]